Red House Painter - Helicopter lyrics

helicopter falls to my

calm virgin island

it said I want to show you

new clouds and new sky

from shore to sun

we'll soar like one

brave martyr pilot

so that I can know you

outside our cold-winded earth

feel part of your desolate pain

taste what has made you grow

at once with your oddness you enlighten

my slow unnurtured brain

be mine for a day

let your lids shut out that bad focus

to die in a storm

holding you in my last hour

our burning flesh will blow over

some nightmare sea

daylight won't find a trace

where heaven finds us

living eyes won't find a sign

where peace will hear our prayers